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ArticlePaediatrics & child health2021

Navigating the complex realm of drug access in paediatric care.

Paige H Dean, Roxane Carr, Chris Jensen, Caron Strahlendorf

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Article in Paediatrics & child health, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Not yet cited in PubMed.

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4 authors.

Paige H DeanFaculty of Medicine, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia.
Roxane CarrChildren's & Women's Health Centre of BC, Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia.
Chris JensenBC Cancer, Vancouver, British Columbia.
Caron StrahlendorfFaculty of Medicine, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia.

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

A Drug Access Navigator (DAN) is a role that has been established in patient care settings with the goal of expediting the process by which patients obtain drugs through the Health Canada Special Access Program (SAP), individual drug companies' patient access programs (PAP), and public and private drug plans. In the paediatric setting, the process of accessing many drugs has grown increasingly complex. The majority of paediatric prescriptions involve 'off-label' drug use. This leads to an increased need for drug access through the SAP and/or PAPs and demonstrates that the need for a DAN may be particularly prominent in the paediatric population. To our knowledge, there is no evidence in the literature of a DAN functioning in a paediatric setting, though there is a demonstrable need. We plan to address this need by introducing a DAN for shared use at BC Children's Hospital, a paediatric tertiary care centre.

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Health economicsOncologyPaediatricsPatient carePharmacy

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PMID34552675
PMCPMC8448498

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